Craig Burley

Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC.

Kay Murray, Craig Burley and Casey Keller here with you in the studio kicking things off tonight in La Liga where Real Madrid were looking to put back-to-back defeats behind them in all competitions with their game against Girona.

However, all they could muster up was a 1-1 draw.

The goals came in the second half, Fede Valverde struck first in the 51st minute, but then Thomas Lemar found the equaliser just over ten minutes later.

Late on in the 87th minute, Mbappe went down under a challenge.

Real Madrid wanted a penalty, Craig, but the referee wasn't having it.

I think Mbappe was a little over theatrical.

a little over theatrical and so it's more dropped points for Real Madrid as the game finished 1-1 it's not an easy time as it stands right now for Real Madrid Luis Garcia was watching it for us today he thought it might be a draw but let me start with you Craig more dropped points not good news for Real Madrid look it's hard to watch that and make an argument for how Real Madrid are going to win in Munich but we keep hearing about this Champions League just raises the standard which

It seems to have done, certainly in the last game.

But that's the standard that we've seen most of the season.

In fact, that's maybe a slightly better than we've seen most of the season.

But that's a kind of mediocre standard that we've seen from Real Madrid that's left him in this position that only Barcelona losing really will give them half a chance because there's a classical coming on May 10th.

a Barcelona win tomorrow, nine points, you can forget it.

And that's because there's been too many of these games.

Too many games where teams have defended deep and defended in an organised way, but Real Madrid haven't been able to break it down.

And when you saw some of this stuff, and I don't blame Kylian Mbappé, who's having this bit of a dry spell.

The chances that he's missing are actually, I think, a lot of difficult chances.

From angles, from balls coming over his head, it's not like he's missing sitters.

But I look at Vinicius Junior today and there was a one point right at the end.

And we have talked to all broadcasters about crosses into the box and better delivery and more delivery.